President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise he'd target immigrants with criminal convictions for deportation, but data show his immigration crackdown has included thousands of people in the D.C. region who have no criminal record.
More than half of the people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested through July in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have no criminal conviction nor pending criminal charges, according to ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the News4 I-Team.
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The finding reveals a stark shift in ICE enforcement actions — one the White House signaled shortly after Trump returned to office in January. The I-Team’s analysis of 2024 ICE arrest data found criminal conv